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struggle4progress

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Wed Sep 21, 2016, 10:07 PM Sep 2016

Informant's Tip Leads To Malheur Arrests - #BundyTeaParty

By CONRAD WILSON • 14 MINUTES AGO

... law enforcement had a confidential informant working for them, as they were setting up to make the arrest of Ammon Bundy and the other occupiers on Jan. 26. A guy named Mark McConnell was driving the jeep that Ammon Bundy and Brian Cavalier were in. McConnell alerted law enforcement both in terms of their location. He also provided law enforcement with a threat assessment.

It was an Oregon state trooper, Jeremiah Beckert, who identified Bundy’s driver, Mark McConnell as the government informant. McConnell complied with police orders to stop his vehicle during the arrest ...


http://nwpr.org/post/informants-tip-leads-malheur-arrests

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Informant's Tip Leads To Malheur Arrests - #BundyTeaParty (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2016 OP
Trooper testifies driver for Ammon Bundy was government informant struggle4progress Sep 2016 #1
Now that this information is out there, I'm concerned for this man's safety. NutmegYankee Sep 2016 #2
Informant Tipped Off OSP struggle4progress Sep 2016 #3
Informant driving car when Ammon Bundy arrested struggle4progress Sep 2016 #4
K & R malaise Sep 2016 #5

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
1. Trooper testifies driver for Ammon Bundy was government informant
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 10:09 PM
Sep 2016

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted September 21, 2016 - 4:42pm
Updated September 21, 2016 - 6:13pm

... Trooper Jeremiah Beckert said ... informant Mark McConnell alerted police that Bundy and other occupiers were traveling Jan. 26 and provided their location.

Beckert then described the ensuing traffic stop and arrests. He said he did not see what happened to Robert “LaVoy” Finicum ...

U.S. District Judge Anna Brown warned attorneys not bring up the circumstances of the Finicum shooting in front of jurors. When it was mentioned, she told jurors this trial is not about the Finicum shooting ...


http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/bundy-blm/trooper-testifies-driver-ammon-bundy-was-government-informant

struggle4progress

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3. Informant Tipped Off OSP
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 10:12 PM
Sep 2016

4 HOURS AGO

... Shortly after the arrests McConnell began publishing videos on social media encouraging people not to believe reports about what had happened, specifically reports that FBI agents shot LaVoy Finicum as he was trying to surrender ...

... Beckert described helping arrest the individuals in McConnell’s Jeep before moving forward to help the officers at the road block where Finicum .. drove his truck into a snowbank ...

Also Wednesday, a detective who investigated Finicum’s killing testified to the weapons found at the scene ...


http://klcc.org/post/informant-tipped-osp-day-arrests-several-malheur-occupation-leaders

struggle4progress

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4. Informant driving car when Ammon Bundy arrested
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 10:14 PM
Sep 2016

Eileen Park and KOIN 6 News Staff
Published: September 21, 2016, 6:00 am
Updated: September 21, 2016, 6:38 pm

... Beckert testified that he was in an unmarked pickup on the side of Hwy 395 when the group of occupiers were pulled over for probable cause on federal charges, not because they had committed a traffic violation.

He added that Ammon Bundy was not armed at the time of the arrest ...

Beckert told the court the high-risk traffic stop was a “once in a lifetime incident.”

Prosecutors showed the jury guns and rounds of ammunition recovered from the scene. They also played video of 4 off-screen shots fired at the FBI plane that was overhead during the traffic stop ...


http://koin.com/2016/09/21/fbi-to-testify-about-arrests-of-malheur-occupiers/

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